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	Empress Teimei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Empress Sadako or Empress Teimei was born Princess Kujo Sadako (jp: 九条節子 kujō no miya sadako joō), (June 25, 1884 - May 17, 1951).
		She was Empress of Japan, the consort of the Taishō Emperor and the mother of Emperor Hirohito.
		She was born in Tokyo, the daughter of Prince (Duke) Kujo Michitaka, head of Kujo branch of the Fujiwara clan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Empress_Sadako (232 words)

	Empress Dowager Teimei - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		born Princess Sadako Kujo (九条節子 kujō sadako) (June 25, 1884 - May 17, 1951) was the consort of the Taisho Emperor and the mother of Emperor Hirohito.
		She was born in Tokyo, the daughter of Prince Michataka Kujo, member of a branch of the Fujiwara clan.
		She died at Omiya Palace in Tokyo, aged 66, and was buried at the imperial mausoleum in Tokyo.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Empress_Sadako (195 words)

	Sei Shonagon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		When she began to serve the Empress Teishi, the empress of Emperor Ichijō, she was supposedly divorced and unmarried.
		As soon as she served the Empress, she was fascinated by the young and beautiful Empress who was a teenager when they met.
		She is also known for her rivalry with her contemporary Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote The Tale of Genji and served the Empress Shoshi, the second empress of the Emperor Ichijō.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sei_Shonagon (503 words)

	Empress Sadako (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Empress Sadako (June 25, 1884 - May 17, 1951) was married tothe Taisho Emperor and was the mother of Emperor Hirohito.
		When she gave birth to Emperor Hirohito, she was the first wifeof a Crown Prince or Emperor to do so since 1750.
		She became Empress when her husbandascended to the throne in 1912.
	www.therfcc.org /empress-sadako-218629.html (116 words)

	[CTRL] Fwd: YAMATO DYNASTY
		For thirty years, the dowager empress surrounded herself with Japanese Quakers and other Christians, men and women, adding them to her retinue and discreetly arranging for them to be appointed to senior posts in the Imperial Household and in the government bureaucracy.
		That there were a surprising number of Christians like Sadako in the upper strata of society does not, however, alter the fact that they were first of all Japanese, with overriding loyalties to their own society.
		By calculated leaks to the press, he destroyed the reputation of the young emperor, and was stopped only by the steadfast counter-attack of Empress Sadako and her allies.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg73136.html (4392 words)

	Imperial Household - Japan's Imperial Family
		The 1947 Imperial Household Law defines the imperial household as: the empress (kogo), the empress dowager (kotaigo), the grand empress dowager (go-kotaigo), the crown prince (kotaishi) and his consort, the imperial grandson who is heir apparent (kotaison) and his consort, the shinno and their consorts, the naishinno, the o and their consorts, and the nyoo.
		The Empress, formerly Miss Shoda Michiko, was born in Tokyo on 24 October 1934, the eldest daughter of the late Mr.
		If the empress did not give birth to an heir, the emperor could take a concubine, and the son he had by that concubine would be recognized as heir to the throne.
	www.japan-101.com /government/imperial_household_japan.htm (1883 words)

	Sei Shonagon Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		She was a daughter of Kiyowara no Motosuke, was a Court lady at the time of Emperor Ichijo and served Empress Sadako.
		She is known for her rivalry with her contemporary Lady Murasaki, the author of The Tale of Genji.
		There are no details about Shonagon's life after the death during childbirth of Empress Sadako in 1000, though The Pillow Book is thought to have been finished sometime between 1001 and 1010.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/se/sei_shonagon.html (154 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Sadako
		In this, the definitive story of the twentieth century's greatest refugee crises, the woman who led the international response recounts her experiences and the lessons she has learned.
		Born and raised in the now-extinct Shitmachi district of Asakusa, a neighbourhood brimming with Kabuki theatres and geisha, Sadako Sawamura tells of her rise to icon status, including her 0804821356.
		Born and raised in the now-extinct Shitmachi district of Asakusa, a neighbourhood brimming with Kabuki theatres and geisha, Sadako Sawamura tells of her rise to icon status, including her account of serving a jail sentence for her pro-communist sympathies.
	awww.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Sadako (1109 words)

	Aaron Paushter
		Due to the unfortunate fact that detailed records were not kept of women during the Heian period, little is known of Shonagon aside from the certainties that she was a woman, a middle level aristocrat and a tutor to the empress Sadako.
		Presently the Empress asked about our poems, and we were obliged to explain that we had not made any.
		As with Shonagon, little is known of Shikibu’s life other than the fact that she was a member of the court of the rival empress Akiko.
	artsci.wustl.edu /~japanciv/pautscher.htm (1919 words)

	[CTRL] The Yamato Dynasty
		The Japanese financial elite he met were so crisp, elegant and beautifully mannered that he failed to see — or chose not to see — the profound institutional corruption that was deeply embedded in the Japanese system (and remains embedded to this day).
		At the centre of the Yamato dynasty during the first half of the twentieth century was Empress Sadako, Hirohito's mother.
		She was said to read the Bible every day, and there are strong indications that she was a practising Christian, although the Imperial Household kept this carefully obscure.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg34598.html (7794 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: Ladies in Rivalry
		Most obviously, Murasaki and Shonagon served as ladies-in-waiting to, respectively, Empress Akiko and Empress Sadako, the wives of the Emperor Ichijo.
		And while the antagonism between the Empresses would have tainted any potential relationship between Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon, their contrasting personalities would have fuelled the conflict between the two writers.
		Murasaki descrbes herself as shy, gentle, and unsociable, “looked down on like some old outcast,” whereas Shonagon was a glittering success: forthright and opinionated in a milieu where women were expected to be quiet and demure, she seems to have demolished any opposition with the force of her sarcastic wit.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/000412.html (931 words)

	Ancient Japan - 3
		Prior to the early Heian period, all sovereigns had been adults, and seemingly no one had envisioned the enthronement of a child emperor.
		In the mid-9th century, however, when nine-year-old Seiwa ascended the throne, his maternal grandfather, Fujiwara Yoshifusa, created the office of sessho, based on the post once held by imperial family members such as the empress Jingu and the princes Nakano Oe and Shotoku.
		Yoshifusa's son Mototsune became sessho during the minority of the succeeding emperor Yozei, and then in the reign of the emperor Uda he created the post of kampaku.
	www.crystalinks.com /japan3.html (4328 words)

	Pikle - The Diary Junction - Shonagon Sei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Sei, a lady in waiting at the Court of the Empress, was the first wife and consort of Emperor Ichijo who reigned from 986 to 1011.
		It is known that in 990 she became an attendant to Empress Sadako, the daughter of Fujiwara Michitaka.
		In 995, however, Michitaka died, and thereafter Sadako's position in the court hierarchy lessened.
	www.pikle.demon.co.uk /diaryjunction/data/sei.html (326 words)

	The Pillow Book -- a lesson plan (a part of the UCLA Teaching about Japan website)
		The author Sei Shônagon was a lady-in-waiting in the salon of Empress Sadako from about 993-1000, while Murasaki Shikibu, the author of The Tale of Genji, served Fujiwara no Michinaga's daughter, Empress Akiko, in a similar capacity from 1005-1013.
		As Iwasa explains it, a more relaxed, lasissez-faire approach was in force during Sadako's time and enabled her to establish a vibrant, "flashy" salon and supportive, stimulating relationships with their ladies.
		31) and in her longer anecdotal entry where she makes a bet with the empress that a mountain of snow on the palace grounds will last well into the new year (pp.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/japan/lessons/pillowbook-lesson.htm (838 words)

	Royalty.nu - The History of Japan - Japanese Royalty
		A collection of anecdotes, memories of court ceremonies, character sketches, and more, written by a lady-in-waiting at the court of the empress Teishi (Sadako) in the late 10th century.
		The author, a lady of the Japanese court, kept this diary between 1007 and 1010.
		Spiced with sharp sketches of a timid empress, spineless courtiers, and quarrelsome ladies-in-waiting, it reveals the underside of imperial splendor.
	www.royalty.nu /Asia/Japan (2038 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Sturdy Empress -- Nov. 22, 1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Her Imperial Majesty, the Sublime Empress Sadako of Japan, failed, last week, for the first time in several years to preside at the annual Chrysanthemum Garden Party attended by 5,000 guests at the Akasaka Palace, Tokyo.
		Her Majesty sat, instead, almost day and night at the bedside of her husband.
		Shrewd, the councilors of the now diseased Emperor chose as his wife Princess Sadako of the house of Kujo, a family celebrated for its prodigious vitality and proliferousness.
	time-proxy.yaga.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,722763,00.html (202 words)

	The Life of Sei Shonagon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Empress would also test the ladies by having the "notebook of Kokin Shu poems before her and (she would start) reading out the first three lines of each poem.
		Sei Shonagon does not give us a false picture of her life as a lady-in- waiting, but a realistic view of what it was like to live the life of a servant to an Empress.
		After her service to the Empress ended, her life is somewhat obscure and it is not known how or when she died.
	www.stark.kent.edu /~jmoneysmith/gbi/ourweb/daugherty.htm (864 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		was May 28 (birthday of the Empress Haruko [1850-1914], known posthumously as Empress Shōken).
		In the Taishō reign, it was June 25 (birthday of the Empress Sadako [1884‑1951], known posthumously as Empress Teimei).
		During the Shōwa reign, prior to 1948, it was March 6 (birthday of Empress Nagako).
	www.japan-japan.com /6a.htm (258 words)

	Lecture 2 Images of Women in Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Her history of her father's reign seems to have been completed in 1148, but since the end of the manuscript is mutilated, it is hard to be sure.
		In 990 she became an attendant to Empress Sadako /Teshi, the daughter of Fujiwara Michitaka.
		From then on, Sadako's position became increasingly insecure, but Shonagon remained with her until Sadako's death in childbirth at the end of 1000.
	califia.hispeed.com /women/plecture3.htm (4821 words)

	PH@school: Literature: Author Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A.D. Sei Shonagon was the gifted Japanese author of The Pillow Book, which is considered to be one of the best works of Japanese prose.
		A well-educated woman of upper-class birth, she served at the court of the Empress Sadako.
		During this time, she wrote the 185 segments that together comprise her literary success.
	www.phschool.com /atschool/literature/author_biographies/shonagon_s.html (173 words)

	Emperor Hirohito
		On April 29, 1901, Michinomiya, who would later become Emperor Hirohito, was the first son of Emperor Taisho (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako).
		When he was a boy, Michinomiya respectfully doubted that the Japanese emperor was a god, but was made to understand that this was a sacred myth.
		See a list of sources used in the making of this report
	www.angelfire.com /ia/totalwar/Hirohito.html (491 words)

	Untitled
		Once the Dowager Empress Sadako began to hint her son might have to abdicate to save the nation, Hirohito suddenly lost his taste for Tojo's company.
		They burned the Royal Palace and the Empress Nagako became hysterical, although completely safe within her bunker.
		And still the Militarists, led by Privy Seal Kido and Prime Minister Koiso, kept vetoing Takematsu's plans for a negotiated peace.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/6234/41326 (1040 words)

	Chronology of Expansion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		1000 A.D. The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon will be compiled in the next 15 years by a lady-in-waiting to the late Japanese empress Sadako (see 1000).
		Daughter of the wit Mutosuke Kiyowara, Sei Shonagon, now 37, will fill her notes and comments with scathing criticisms and polished indelicacies that will make her diaries popular for centuries.
		1000 A.D. The Japanese emperor Ichijo, now 20, makes his wife Sadako (Teishi), 25, empress, but she dies after 10 months and Akiko, 12, becomes empress.
	www.b17.com /family/lwp/chronology/expansion.html (5909 words)

	Links to Japan - Literature, Authors
		Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827) : one of the most prolific of Japan's haiku poets, leaving thousands of one-breath masterpieces for the world to enjoy.
		Sei Shonagon : Sei Shonagon served as an attendant (or lady-in-waiting) to Empress Sadako during the last decade of the 10
		Search results will be shown at the bottom of the web page.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/art/literature/japan.htm (343 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Meaty Commentary (July 30 - August 5, 1998)
		Each chapter is introduced by a quote from The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon.
		Shônagon was a lady-in-waiting to the 11th-century Empress Sadako.
		Her Pillow Book is a collection of loosely organized notes and observations of the court life.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/07-30-98/book2.htm (915 words)

	Hirohito
		What complicates the marriage controversy of Hirohito was the participants were divided along left-right wing lines.
		Those who supported upholding the engagement, which Hirohito's mother Empress Sadako made, also supported the emperor's divinity and that no member of the constitutional government should mess with the decisions of the imperial household.
		This left-right confrontation was to continue well into the Second World War.
	www.indiana.edu /~hisdcl/h207_2002/bix1.htm (1058 words)

	electricinca.com: July 2004
		It's easy to forget the fact that these words were written in the tenth century, because the results in this format read -- well, rather like a blog.
		The Pillow Book was a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shonagon during her time as court lady to Empress Sadako during the 990s in Heian Japan.
		This is an interesting project that offers an unique insight into Japanese culture that is in its way still relevant today.
	www.electricinca.com /archive/2004_07_01_index.html (4468 words)

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